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The Self-Published Survivors Bundle on Steam gives you 9 positively rated games for cheaps
24 June 2024 at 10:14 am UTC

I've played Void Scrappers (great), Gunlocked (very good), Nomad Survival (good) off this list and recommend them.

Zelda-inspired dungeon maker 'Quest Master' arrives May 29th with a new demo live
9 May 2024 at 4:42 am UTC Likes: 2

The Developer fixed the issue while I was waiting, so the keyboard problem is no longer happening.

Zelda-inspired dungeon maker 'Quest Master' arrives May 29th with a new demo live
9 May 2024 at 2:08 am UTC Likes: 1

Looks interesting. I wanted to try the demo, but after clicking on Play, and then pressing a key to wake a bedridden character, the character jumps out of bed, then demo just hangs for me. (All keys failed to perform any action, so I had to quit and kill the game.)

I tried Proton Experimental, Proton 9, Steam Linux Runtime - None of these got me past the problem.

Lefties unite! Counter-Strike 2 now lets you swap hands
29 April 2024 at 12:41 am UTC

Personally, I hate the gun models in first person shooter games. I want to see the full background view of the landscape with just a cross-hair for aiming, and no gun model obscuring up to 25% of the screen.

(I wish the games had the option to turn OFF the gun models in their settings.)

Over 10 years later 7 Days to Die is going to leave Early Access
22 April 2024 at 10:03 pm UTC Likes: 1

I've got over 4000 hours in the game, and I preferred the earlier Alphas, before they messed up the water system. In Alpha 20 and earlier, I could set the game to extreme difficulty levels and still not have too hard a time finding enough water to survive.

This is the way I prefer to play:
- 60% wasteland, 20% desert, 20% snow biome.
- No traders, which make surviving much harder.
- Survivalist zombie toughness (or higher).
- Sprinting zombies, 24 hours/day (or higher).

Without traders in the game, you're able to concentrate fully on survival. I have started using a Water Mod where any water jars you drink, you get back an empty jar (that you can refill). This makes up for the fact that there are no traders in the world to buy water filters from. If you convert the water jar to glue or food recipe, you lose the jar and I don't have jar crafting enabled, so I'm keeping it as close as I can to the new format (You're forced to find water by scavenging).

Most people play on extremely easy settings, and a lot of Youtubers tweak their experience gain so that they are rapidly out of primitive play and into over-powered end-game.

Check out this guy's play (on truly hard Alpha 20 settings):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyz0JQTvLEo&t=15731s

In my future I foresee a whole lot of hours in Dungeon Clawler
23 March 2024 at 12:59 pm UTC Likes: 1

And like a claw machine in an amusement arcade, ultimately quite a frustrating experience. Not so keen here, after trying it.

Knock knock. Who's there? More scam apps on Canonical's Snap Store!
19 March 2024 at 12:08 pm UTC Likes: 5

Yes, it is pretty serious to consider that the whole software landscape is in danger of threats like this. I imagine this attack vector is partly a result of Linux's growing desktop market share, where there are more inexperienced users nowadays, who are easier to trick with malware exploits.

Into the future running an active firewall application (such as Safing Portmaster) might be an essential protective measure.

Check out Jack Rhysider's podcast talking to a real crypto scammer (and the various tricks that were implemented):
https://odysee.com/@jackrhysider:4/the-cops-had-no-idea-he-just-stole-1:a

Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor hits Early Access on February 14th
5 February 2024 at 12:22 pm UTC Likes: 1

Yeah, I enjoyed the demo of this, a few months back.

Orange Pi Neo gaming handheld to come with Manjaro Linux
5 February 2024 at 12:21 pm UTC Likes: 1

A bit disappointed that this isn't an ultra-cheap Raspberry Pi clone handheld that'd be ideal for emulation.